Anyone actually going to pay to see Froch on TV?

Its an improvement over the live stream last time and delayed ITV coverage for the Taylor fight. In the last few months there has been a lot of concern weather we'd get to see it at all, so given the ineptness of Mick i'd say this aint so bad.

Still i'm going so hopefully for the next one he'll be with Sky!

 

**** this negativity. I'm buying and I'll buy the other fights too if they show them as well! £12.95 to see the beginning of something that is utterly brilliant for our sport - at a time when it's getting kicked in the teeth by people who haven't got a ****ing clue what they're on about.

£6.50 per fight - that'll do me very nicely. Five Live? Bolt. I can remember the days when me and my old man stayed up until the early hours to hear Bruno get ****ed up by Tyson. We never had Satellite. I never had Satellite until I got a place of my own. I missed out on a lot. Now I've got the chance to part with £12.95 from my wage to see something exciting, innovative, entertaining and I get all that 24/7 malarky as well.

So we have 17 days until the fights happen so if I start putting the pennies away now i might just have enough. Granted Sky or whoever should've picked this up but at the end of the day I wouldn't cared who picked it up I was always prepared to commit.

I'm cancelling ESPN though.

 

You're missing the point, Uppercut. I too would be happy to pay for this (if they end up putting it on Virgin Media), but this was a chance for a thrilling new concept, as well as an exciting homegrown boxer, to really be sold to the casual fan. Can you see anyone other than a hardcore fan buying a PPV for some German/Armenian dude V an American alongside some British bloke no-one on the street has even heard of against some American that most Americans have never heard of? I can't. Hennessy has shafted everyone concerned, IMO. Can you imagine how good it would have been for boxing to get this tournament in the mainstream? Sadly, it doesn't look like that will happen now, though:conf:good.

 

If im out with mates probably, if im at home on my own then not a ****ing chance.

Not that I could anyway as im with virginmedia, which makes this idea all the more idiotic, what ****ing bellend decided to alienate potential customers on virgin media? Thick ****s.

Excuse the language!

 

i'm undecided. i think i'll probably save my pennies and watch by other means

 

Yeah okay but at the end of the day we don't know, and might never know, the ins and outs of what Froch and Mick got offered. The casual fan would have a chance if the Beeb and ITV got their finger out. But it doesn't boil down to this tournament. The Beeb showed their cards years ago and now we can look forward to cycling, athletics, horse racing and scalextric. The casual fan is dying because of terrestrial channels nonsensical ignorance to a sport that gets them millions of viewers. The deluded idea of the top end of the sport ever being back on these channels is gone, finished, rip. We're getting pushed down the American route and whilst it used to irritate me I've grown used to it. We're in a ppv boxing world now. So people's choice is now simple: Get on board, continue watching average streams which don't have great consistency or spend a few quid upgrading your equipment.

This thread is asking are you going to pay and the answer is yes. Since this tourney came out I've been bouncing and the fact I'm going to get to see it is an early b'day present for me. Am I happy for paying extra money, no. But I'm used to it and for once this is a ppv that is worth the dosh. I'm sorry you're missing out, truly am.

The future of this ppv thing is dependant on the marketing. People are making stupid assumptions and predictions before anything has been said or done.

 

Its not worst its on normal time, not 5am its PPV no ADDS!!!
In fact PPV at 5am with advetisments is criminal in itself

You get he full vegas behind the scenes build ups of past fights all wekk interactions on sites etc

in other words

its serious business over there:good

 

I'll probably buy it as I cant be doing with shitty streams

 

i know were supposed to be dedicated boxing fans in these hard times of lack of boxing being televised and we should show interest in all boxing that is showed to get the ratings up that will eventually give us more, whether its amateurs on the bbc, crap cards on itv or ppv on sky. but surely in these hard times if a channel like say primetime get loads of buys and viewings i cant see how that would give us more chance of getting boxing back on mainstream telly? more than likely primetime are gonna go " we've got something here lets put the price up of the payperview" ????

 

I hope Mick is going to put a bit of effort into the presentation on the night.

I.e - decent presenter, decent summariser, decent commentary. Not similar to the Eurosport ****.

Buncey, are you gonna send Mick your cv?